Victory Bands Support Record Store Day

Tuesday, April 15 2008
New York's BAYSIDE will be performing an acoustic set at the Newbury Comics in Leominster, MA for the first annual Record Store Day on April 19th, 2008, which will encompass events across the country.
"My favorite part about independent record stores is their dedication to music," notes BAYSIDE singer, Anthony Raneri. Currently touring the U.S. with The Starting Line, the band's re-release of latest album The Walking Wounded, complete with a bonus DVD, will be released on July 22nd. Their new full-length album, tentatively titled Shudder, will be produced by David Schiffman (Weezer, Jimmy Eat World, Johnny Cash), and is scheduled for release later this year.
Fellow Victory artists RED I FLIGHT, ACROSS FIVE APRILS and SECRET LIVES OF THE FREEMASONS will be appearing at Championship Records in Lemoyne, PA for a signing, ticket giveaway, plus an acoustic set from SECRET LIVES!
For more information on Record Store and all of the other events taking place, visit www.recordstoreday.com

“’King of Nothing’ is a song
about wanting to be the best,” states BROADSIDE
vocalist Ollie Baxxter. “We chose this life as touring musicians but it can be painfully
lonely. We all want to be heard and play to massive crowds while making enough
money that our parents won’t worry about our futures. I’m so proud of our
accomplishments as a band but some nights, after the show ends and those crowds
leave the venue, when you’re in the back seat of a dark van, you feel like
you’re not doing enough and those dreams you have become nightmares of what
you’ll never achieve. You can be on top of the world and have nothing.”

“I was going through a real out
of body misery when writing ‘Empty,’” Baxxter playfully admits. “The duality of
a being a broken-hearted romantic splits a person. On one hand, you've been
wronged, you should run and never look back. On the other, the rewarding time
spent and memories made keep you trapped in the worrisome ‘what if this person
leaves’ psychosis. I wanted to write a dance-y song making fun of how
unfortunate it is to be in love, sometimes.”

Fans can fall in love with BROADSIDE’s live show once again as the
band will support Set It Off across North America starting June 11 and wrapping
up July 19. BROADSIDE will then head
into the studio to record a brand new album, the follow-up to 2017’s smash Paradise. In the fall of 2019, the band
return to Europe for a month+ long tour (dates to be announced soon) and more
slated for 2020.

CAROUSEL KINGS have released a
soul-stirring new song, “Monarch,” from their upcoming full-length album Plus Ultra, available on May 31, 2019.
That same day, the Pennsylvania punks kick off the Plus Ultra Tour Phase 1 in
Albany, NY with more dates to be announced soon.

As the band packs
their bags for the road, Alexander adds, “We are totally thrilled to get out
there, do the work and show fans where CAROUSEL
KINGS are at as we prepare to enter a new decade. Plus Ultra is the culmination of where this band came from and
where we are going. And we hope to see you in your city soon!”

AWAKEN I AM have released “The Stages Of Grief,” a brand new video from their
upcoming EP The Beauty In Tragedy, set
for release on April 26, 2019. The five song collection plays as a
tribute dedicated entirely to their late guitarist Connor Verner-Oakley.

“The love that we all shared with
Connor ran so deep,” admits drummer Luke McKenzie. “With such a sudden loss we
never got the chance to let him know how much we loved him, how proud we are of
him and how we cherished the final times we spent together. This recording was
the hardest thing we have ever had to work through and move forward from. ‘The
Stages Of Grief’ is self-explanatory, we are working through all of this and finding
our way of saying he will always be loved and always missed.”

Never afraid to show their
loveable demeanor, CAROUSEL
KINGS
are delivering a second peek into their upcoming album through the new video “Lock
Meowt,” ahead of the release of Plus
Ultra on May 31, 2019. The video showcases the Pennsylvania quartet’s lighter
side without straying from their bounce-off-the-wall rhythms and wildly energetic
sing-alongs.

AWAKEN I AM have released a brand new video for “Kin,” from their upcoming EP The Beauty In Tragedy, set for release on April 26, 2019. The five-song collection plays as a tribute to their late guitarist Connor Verner-Oakley, and features the previously released song/video “Dissolution,” with “Kin” and three new tracks dedicated to Oakley.

Monday, April 28 2008
Emmure is featured in the commercial for the upcoming TNA Wrestling pay per view event Sacrifice. The song playing is taken from THE RESPECT ISSUE, in stores May 13th. Check out the clip HERE

Tuesday, April 08 2008
Last March, Victory Records launched its free online media player, VICTORSTREAM. Just over a year later, the player registered over 1,000,000 views, and over 150,000 unique users.
Anyone can grab the player and post it on their MySpace or website, and it streams a regularly updated playlist of music and video daily. You can also keep up with the latest news, tour dates, merch, and other info for each band; it's basically the Victory Records website in a box, spreading the word about the label anywhere it's posted.
We are hard at work readying the next version of VICTORSTREAM, to be released later this year.
Check out what over 1,000,000 people already know, and here's to the next 1,000,000!

Monday, April 07 2008DARKEST HOUR have recorded a new arena anthem for their favorite ice hockey team – the Washington Capitals.
Based on their song "A Thousand Words To Say But One," Let’s Go Caps! can be downloaded from a special page DARKEST HOUR have set up www.myspace.com/letsgocapsmusic